Welcome to Barbara Papendorp/ Actor-Singer

Actor-Singer

•  Barbara Papendorp has been seen with many of Washington’s theater companies, including Forum Theater, Washington Shakespeare Company, Le Neon, and American Century. As a cabaret artist she has appeared with the In Series and at venues including La Maison Française, Alliance Française, and the Phillips Collection Renoir’s Return. Barbara received glowing reviews as Violette the Dancehall Singer in La Vagabonde with Le Neon Theatre. She was universally praised for her Chanteuse and Louise in the WSC’s production of Private Lives and the companion piece Coward Cabaret. She is often seen onstage at the Arts Club of Washington and at the Happenings at the Harman Center of the Arts. 

• Book us for your special events!  Wine tasting? Alumni reception? Special Birthday or Anniversary? You name it-- we can create a special program just for you...the possibilities are endless!

• I collaborate with Amy Conley to create cabarets/programs for special occasions and events. For MLK Library's BANNED BOOKS Week, we created a closing cabaret performance "The Naughty List", for Shakespeare Theatre's Harman Happenings we performed "Cocktails with Coward" to accompany their production of Noel Coward's Private Lives.

• Why do I love Paris? (and Porter for that matter?) My CD "Taking Requests: From Paris to Porter" has been simmering on the back burner for some while. Having lived in Paris as a child, I love rediscovering the City of Lights as an adult through the songs of Edith Piaf, Charles Aznavour and Gilbert Becaud, to name only a few. I just love Paris! And so does Cole Porter (he even wrote a song or two about that). I've always been drawn to the wit and romance of his work, and it was as I developed my various cabarets celebrating Paris and Porter that "Taking Requests" took shape.

• Available for narration projects: books, podcasts commercials. Character voices and dialects and fluent in French.

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